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Decrepit Dakkanaut





Seeing reports now that Felix Silla, who gave us the hang gliding Ewok in RotJ has passed on the 16th of April.
   
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Moustache-twirling Princeps




United Kingdom

Shock G: Digital Underground's The Humpty Dance rapper dies, aged 57 - BBC
   
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Moustache-twirling Princeps




United Kingdom

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies at 90 - BBC
   
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Armpit of NY

Part of one of the most famous families in American motorsports, 3 time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser passed away Sunday. https://www.espn.com/racing/indycar/story/_/id/31383651/bobby-unser-three-indianapolis-500-winner-dies-age-87
   
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Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

Olympia Dukakis passed at 89. She was in a ton of stuff when I was growing up, a good comedic and serious actor.

   
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Villanous Scum







Richard Halliwell died today;
https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2021/05/rip-richard-halliwell.html

Gonna have a game of Space Hulk in his memory.

On parle toujours mal quand on n'a rien à dire. 
   
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Moustache-twirling Princeps





Gone-to-ground in the craters of Coventry

He designed (solo or co-) some of my favourite games.
Sad to see him go.

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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw (probably)
Clubs around Coventry, UK 
   
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United Kingdom

Norman Lloyd: Tributes paid to Hitchcock and St Elsewhere actor following his death at 106 - BBC
   
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot






Kentaro Miura, creator of the utterly brilliant Manga series Berserk (which I highly recommend to anyone), dead at 54 of acute aortic dissection.

For those not in the know, Berserk has been HUGELY influential on Japanese Fantasy, and directly influential on a lot of media - such as the Dark Souls franchise - that is popular in the West.

Last year I picked up a visual guide to Berserk, as I've been a fan since I was in uni, and thought it'd be a nice thing to have as a curio, and found a lot of info inside on not only the influences that Miura took from pop culture, but also the absolutely staggering amount of historical and even anatomical research he did to create the setting of Berserk, which transitions seamlessly from very classically kitsch Japanese High Fantasy, to nastily gritty historic realism, to Heironimous Bosch-esque hellscapes.
It's a series that I really deeply love, and is masterfully done. No writer I've ever come across has so quickly been able to make me go from "I'm sure this character is about to live happily ever after, everything is gonna work out great" to "Oh, please, just let their death be quick and painless" with such astonising speed.
Berserk will almost certainly remain unfinished, having been ongoing, and in-and-out of hiatus since its original publication in the 1980s, however, with the burgeoning popularity of the Souls series, and it's growing impact in the West, I'm sure Mr. Miura's legacy will continue to burn just a brilliantly as it deserves.

If you haven't already, try to check out Berserk, and, as I'm sure there are other Berserk fans here, take a lil moment for a real master of his craft, and a titan of Manga.
さようなら
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Cozy cockpit of an Imperial Knight

Fffffffffffff- that is a damned shame, we'll never see it finished now.



Fatum Iustum Stultorum

 
   
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Hiding behind terrain

This news hurt. Berserk is great.
   
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 BrookM wrote:
Fffffffffffff- that is a damned shame, we'll never see it finished now.


I hear tell that he planned for this and has a chosen successor who has all his notes to continue the story with.

 
   
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United Kingdom

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley dies at 81 - BBC
   
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Gavin MacLeod, best known for being the captain of TV's The Love Boat and also starring in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has passed today at age 90.

https://apnews.com/article/gavin-macleod-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-6313dfd801244eeeea2be2ddeac1cdbb

Personally I always liked his relatively minor role in the movie Kelly's Heroes, where he played Oddball's "mechanical genius", Moriarty.

RIP Gavin, and my condolences to his family and friends.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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A Protoss colony world

RIP Joanne Linville, probably best known to sci-fi fans as the attractive Romulan commander who fell for Spock in the original series Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident". She was 93 years old.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/21/joanne-linville-of-star-trek-and-twilight-zone-fame-dead-at-93/?fbclid=IwAR3-e3m8lrBKiabbgthQ0yjEs_r98SBzHv9otgJsAf6aF0cBbGFou9CN8YQ

Personally, I've always really liked that episode of Trek. One of my favorites from the original series, and Ms. Linville was brilliant in it. Very sad to hear of her passing.

Another bit of trivia: In the fan-made series Star Trek Continues, the role of the female Romulan commander is played by Joanne Linville's daughter, Amy Rydell.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Who doesn’t love crazy mutant squawk-puppies? Eh? Nobody, that’s who.
 
   
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United Kingdom

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell - BBC
   
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St. Louis


Shame he took the easy way out. Tax evasion isn't what I wanted to see him go down for, but it would have been better than nothing.
   
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57726118

Richard Donner, Legendary film director and only one to ever make a decent Superman film (or two), he will be missed

"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." 
   
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Surprised it wasn't mentioned before: Donald Rumsfeld passed on last week.

Obviously, many of us have strong feelings (both good and bad) about the guy, but it is undeniable that he was an important figure in the early 21st century.
   
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On an Express Elevator to Hell!!

Some of the obituaries to that guy made for pretty rich reading, and re-kindled memories of my student days and protesting in Bristol. Think there were hundreds of thousands there (believe I've read approaching half a million?), it was something pretty special, for all the good it did.

I have pretty strong feelings indeed, in that he was probably one of the few human beings whose actions have made me earnestly wish that Hell is real.

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Small but perfectly formed! A Great Crusade Epic 6mm project: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/694411.page

 
   
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United Kingdom

Joey Jordison, Founding Slipknot Drummer, Dead at 46 - Rolling Stone
   
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Newcastle, OZ

Mike Howe, the singer from Metal church also died.

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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God must be forming one hell of a super group. That or Lemmy has taken over and is doing the necessary.

Dusty Hills of ZZ Top has passed away.



   
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Fort Worth, TX

That one hurts. Got to see ZZ Top perform a few years back at Winstar Casino.

"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me."
- Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks 
   
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Columbus, Oh

Ron Popeil, inventor, tv late night huckster, and Ronco CEO has passed away...

"But wait, there's more...."

nope... still dead.

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

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Get of Freki (Space Wolves): W-3, L-1, T-1
Hive Fleet Portentosa (Nids/Stealers): W-6, L-4, T-0
Omega Marines (vanilla Space Marine): W-1, L-6, T-2
Waagh Magshak (Orks): W-4, L-0, T-1
A.V.P.D.W.: W-0, L-2, T-0

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Nashville, TN

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
God must be forming one hell of a super group. That or Lemmy has taken over and is doing the necessary.

Dusty Hills of ZZ Top has passed away.




How,how,how how....did he die?


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Proverbs 18:2

"CHEESE!" is the battlecry of the ill-prepared.

 warboss wrote:

GW didn't mean to hit your wallet and I know they love you, baby. I'm sure they won't do it again so it's ok to purchase and make up.


Albatross wrote:I think SlaveToDorkness just became my new hero.

EmilCrane wrote:Finecast is the new Matt Ward.

Don't mess with the Blade and Bolter! 
   
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Newcastle, OZ

He pulled out of their tour citing "Hip issues" (His wife did say that he did have recurring bursitis issues with that hip).

A few days later, woke up, spoke a few words to her, then was gone.

Sometimes, folks just die.

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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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I know many folks around here may be sports fans, or not, regardless, pancreatic cancer seems like a horrible way to go:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hall-of-fame-goaltender-tony-esposito-dies-78-1.6136822
   
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"Well, he ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad muddy funster. I mean, he gets paid by people to funk guys up"

Fisti-fu legend Sonny Chiba, 82

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/aug/19/sonny-chiba-martial-arts-master-and-kill-bill-star-dies-covid

"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." 
   
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Watch Fortress Excalibris

Comedian Sean Lock has gone to the great stand-up club in the sky.




I know this is a couple of days late. But, in all fairness, so is Sean Lock...

A little bit of righteous anger now and then is good, actually. Don't trust a person who never gets angry. 
   
 
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